SDG 5: Gender Equality

By 2030, all forms of discrimination against women and girls everywhere should be ended. Instead, women and girls should have equal opportunities to participate in political, economic and public life.

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Three questions

‘We need more feminine energy’

Three questions for Rashi Gupta, Founder and Managing Director of Vision Mechatronics, a leading company in the fields of robotics, renewable energy and energy storage in India

President Lula's forest policy is proving effective

Background

President Lula’s forestry policy bears fruit

Focus on forest conservation: GIZ supports Brazil in protecting the Amazon region in many ways.

Report

Money for creative growth

For women in Jordan to start their own businesses, they need financial knowledge – and access to money and digital tools. We visited two women entrepreneurs who set out on this path.

Portraits

Top trio for human rights

2024 all three regional human rights courts were led by women, namely Nancy Hernández López in the Americas, Síofra O’Leary in Europe and Imani Daud Aboud in Africa. This was a first and sent a strong signal for legal systems and equal participation worldwide. GIZ supports the dialogue forum of the three human rights courts.

Interview

‘Inspiring women’

The women presidents of the three regional human rights courts in an interview: Imani Daud Aboud from Africa, Nancy Hernández López from the Americas and Síofra O’Leary from Europe on women in the judiciary, role models and cooperation across continents

Background

The climate crisis is tougher on women

Higher temperatures affect people around the globe in vastly different ways, and this is also linked to gender. Climate policy therefore has to consider gender as a factor – which is another reason for a feminist development policy.

Agenda 2030

Nothing less than the ‘transformation of our world’ is at the centre of the 2030 Agenda. Economic progress worldwide should be in harmony with social justice and the protection of natural resources.

Since its adoption by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015, the 2030 Agenda, together with the Paris Climate Agreement, has been the guiding principle of German development cooperation and the overarching framework to which GIZ aligns its work.

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations

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